Editing Walter Lang (section)

==Early life==
Walter Lang was born in Tennessee. As a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a [[movie studio|film production company]]. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking and eventually worked as an assistant director. However, Lang also had ambitions to be a painter and left the United States for a time to join the great gathering of artists and writers in the [[Montparnasse Quarter]] of Paris, France. Things did not work out as Lang hoped and he eventually returned home and to the film business.