Leonard Lipton was an American author, filmmaker, lyricist and inventor.
16 Facts About Lenny Lipton
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At age 19, Lenny Lipton wrote the poem that became the basis for the lyrics to the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon".
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Lenny Lipton went on to write books on independent filmmaking and become a pioneer in the field of projected three-dimensional imagery.
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Lenny Lipton's technology is used to show 3D films on more than 30,000 theater screens worldwide.
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Lenny Lipton majored in physics at Cornell University after starting out in electrical engineering.
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Lenny Lipton was 19 when he wrote the poem that was adapted into the lyrics for the 1963 song "Puff, the Magic Dragon", performed by Peter, Paul and Mary.
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Lenny Lipton's inspiration was a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, "The Tale of Custard the Dragon".
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Lenny Lipton was a pioneer in the field of projected three-dimensional imagery and was one of the creators of the electronic stereoscopic display industry.
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Lenny Lipton's interest dated back to his childhood in New York where he attended movie palaces, with some films shown in 3D.
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Lenny Lipton drew his own 3D comics using red and green crayons on tracing paper, which were viewed using primitive glasses constructed of cardboard tubes and magnifying lenses.
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Lenny Lipton built a prototype of a flicker-free, field-sequential 3D display system and founded StereoGraphics Corporation in 1980 to fund development.
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Lenny Lipton was the chief technology officer at RealD until 2009, when he left to do independent consulting.
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Lenny Lipton published his definitive treatment of the subject, Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema: A Study in Depth, in 1982.
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In 2021, Lenny Lipton published The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era.
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Flux's origins date back to 2009, when Lenny Lipton was speaking at the Cinematheque Francaise, whose museum happened to be exhibiting a history of magic lantern technology.
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Lenny Lipton died from brain cancer in Los Angeles, on October 5,2022, at age 82.