“It was a toy, but I really understood how it worked,” he said. Lipton also authored books including 1972’s Independent Filmmaking 1979’s Lipton on Filmmaking 1982’s Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema and 2021’s The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology From the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era.īorn in Brooklyn on May 18, 1940, Leonard Lipton was 8 when his dad gave him a 16-millimeter projector. After StereoGraphics was acquired by RealD in 2005, Lipton continued development of his technology as RealD’s chief technology officer.

In the Hollywood 3D community, Lipton is known for developing the ZScreen electro-optical modulator - a tool used in digital 3D projection - through his company, StereoGraphics.

Yarrow had tracked down Lipton and granted him half the songwriting credit, and royalties allowed him to pursue his interest in filmmaking. Over the years, Lipton denied that “Puff” was about drugs, a “myth” he said was started by New York newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen. Nobody, with Burgess Meredith voicing the dragon in all three.Ī children’s picture book based on the song has sold more than a million copies and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. The tune spawned a 1978 animated CBS special and two sequels, 1979’s Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies and 1982’s Puff and the Incredible Mr. “The Puff story is really just a lot like Peter Pan.” “Pirates and dragons, back then, were common interests in stories for boys,” Lipton told L.A. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 as one of the folk trio’s most enduring hits. It was released in January 1963 and peaked at No. Yarrow’s Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the song in 1962. Yarrow discovered the poem - about a boy named Jackie Paper and his imaginary dragon friend in a land by the sea - in the typewriter and years later used it for the lyrics to “Puff the Magic Dragon.” Rissien, 'Castle Keep' Producer and Filmways, Playboy Productions Exec, Dies at 98

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