Leonard Lipton
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Leonard (Lenny) Lipton was born May 18, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York. Lenny wrote the lyrics to Puff the Magic Dragon as a 19 year old at Cornell University. Lenny is a well known author, filmmaker and stereoscopic vision system inventor. Two of Lenny's books, The Super 8 Book (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books. 1975) and Independent Film Making (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972) have become known as classics in the world of independent filmmaking.
Lenny is a prolific filmmaker, having independently produced 25 films, including Far Out, Star Route and Children of the Golden West.
Lenny is also well known for his work in stereoscopic cinema, having published the now classic Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema (Van Nostrand Reinhold). Lenny has been granted twenty five patents in the area of stereoscopic displays and started the StereoGraphics Corporation in 1980 to develop stereoscopic displays for real-time computing systems.
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