Edward Anhalt was born in New York City. Educated at George Washington High School, he was part of an experiment funded by the Carnegie Foundation which took fifty children with exceptional IQs and placed them into an accelerated educational program. From there he went on to study journalism at Columbia, but he left in his sophomore year. Anhalt won a Rockefeller Foundation grant to Princeton in 1935 and in 1937 received a fellowship to study documentary film technique under Willard Van Dyke. For two years he worked as cameraman and film editor in the field of socially conscious documentary, collaborating with Van Dyke, Pare Lorentz, and Ralph Steiner. Joining CBS in 1938, he became chief television cameraman, wrote the first study of television camera work to appear in American Cinematographer, directed Eugene Loring and the American Ballet Theatre in a television version of Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid, and was involved...