Ludwig Blattner [SEP] manner of death
about technical developments in sound and colour" according to Michael Powell, business problems with the studio, due to the advent of rival talking picture systems, led to heavy financial loss, and in 1934 Joe Rock leased Elstree Studios from Ludwig Blattner, and bought it outright in 1936, a year after Blattner's suicide. After going through several more owners, the studio became the BBC Elstree Centre in 1984.
Personal life.
Of German origin, Blattner emigrated to Great Britain in 1897 aged 16 with Gustav Mellin,
of the score for Battleship Potemkin, some time after Meisel's death in 1930, therefore Else was not the mother of Ludwig's children born in 1913 and 1914. Ludwig hanged himself at the Elstree Country Club in October 1935, when his son was 22 and his daughter was 21. Ludwig and Gerry were honoured by the naming of Blattner Close in Elstree in the mid-1990s.
External links.
- Blattnerphone at the BBC's A History of the World
- Blattner Close at streetmap.co.uk