Educational had its own lot when Langdon started working there in '32 - it was the former Principal Pictures Studio at 7250 Santa Monica Blvd. It became Western Service Studios in late '33. Up to that point, Arvid Gillstrom had continued to utilize the lot even after he'd switched distribution to Paramount. Langdon's final Gillstrom short, PETTING PREFERRED, was shot at General Service Studios in January 1934.
Langdon returned to General Service that December to shoot LOVE, HONOR AND OBEY (THE LAW) for B.F. Goodrich, which was produced in between his second and third Columbia shorts (hence the "courtesy of Columbia Pictures" on the titles). It was copyrighted in May 1935 and played for free that spring at various schools, civic auditoriums and vacant theaters, along with a newsreel and a feature entitled HIGHWAY PATROL.
Michael
Educational didn't own the Principal Pictures lot either. Remember, those Gillstrom Langdons were basically independent productions that Educational distributed, which is why Gillstrom switched to Paramount for better distribution so easily when he had the opportunity. Western Service became another busy rent-a studio just like General Service.
The closest thing Educational, who was essentially just a distributor of all sorts of independent short product, had for their own studio was the old Astra Studios that they set up Jack White in during the 20's to produce the majority of their mid-late-20's short product. Earle Hammons then bankrolled a big chunk of Al Christies new sound studio as part of that KBS-World-Wide fiasco that was the straw that finally broke Educationals back. When that fell through, Educational shot the last of their West Coast product at rented General Service Studios, then high-tailed it out to Astoria where they made everything apart from a few Keaton shorts after 1935.
RICHARD M ROBERTS