Richard M Roberts wrote:ralph celentano wrote:THE STAGE HAND is one Langdon title I have trouble tolerating.
Two of my favorites are KNIGHT DUTY 1933 and
LOVE HONOR AND OBEY (THE LAW!) * 1936. The cat and canary gag is a highlight. (I believe LOVE was shot on the Educational lot for Goodyear.)
* My 1935 Kodak ** printdown with opening titles from my negative was used on the Langdon Lost and found DVD set.
** Possibly left over Kodak stock from the previous year.
There actually was no Educational Lot by 1935 in Hollywood, and General Service Studios rented to everyone. Educational used both General and earlier, the Metropolitan Studios (were they the same lot with different owners?). Educational had nothing to do with making LOVE, HONOR AND OBEY THE LAW.
The film was most likely made in 1935, as Langdon was out of the Country for most of 1936.
RICHARD M ROBERTS
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