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Lenny Lipton, “Puff the Magic Dragon” Lyricist and 3D Filmmaking Pioneer, Dies at 82

After the huge success of the Peter, Paul and Mary hit, he founded StereoGraphics and developed an electro-optical modulator known as ZScreen.

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Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the Peter, Paul and Mary hit “Puff the Magic Dragon” and developed technology used for today’s digital 3D theatrical projection systems, has died. He was 82.

Lipton died Wednesday of brain cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Noah told The Hollywood Reporter.

While studying engineering as a freshman at Cornell University, Lipton, inspired by a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, “The Tale of Custard the Dragon,” wrote a poem in 1959 on a typewriter owned by another physics major at the school, Peter Yarrow.

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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.”

Yarrow’s Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the song in 1962. It was released in January 1963 and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 as one of the folk trio’s most enduring hits.

“Pirates and dragons, back then, were common interests in stories for boys,” Lipton told L.A. Weekly in a 2015 interview. “The Puff story is really just a lot like Peter Pan.”

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. Nobody, with Burgess Meredith voicing the dragon in all three.

A 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.

Over the years, Lipton denied that “Puff” was about drugs, a “myth” he said was started by New York newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen.

Yarrow had tracked down Lipton and granted him half the songwriting credit, and royalties allowed him to pursue his interest in filmmaking.

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. After StereoGraphics was acquired by RealD in 2005, Lipton continued development of his technology as RealD’s chief technology officer.

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.

Born in Brooklyn on May 18, 1940, Leonard Lipton was 8 when his dad gave him a 16-millimeter projector. “It was a toy, but I really understood how it worked,” he said. “I didn’t take it apart as much as I really understood how it worked, so I made other things like it.”

Comic books and 3D movies in the early 1950s got Lipton interested in the stereographic medium, and in the ’60s, he shot several experimental films, including Let a Thousand Parks Bloom, about People’s Park in Berkeley, California.

He served as a production assistant on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), founded StereoGraphics in 1980 and served as a convergence setter for the 3D film Dogs From Hell (1983).

As of 2015, Lipton held 68 patents and had dozens more pending. “The motion picture industry has made billions of dollars from my [ZScreen] invention, and they would be in the red and not the black if I had not done what I did,” he said.

The Smithsonian Institution honored him in 1996 for StereoGraphics’ invention of CrystalEyes, electronic eyewear for computer graphics and video applications such as molecular modeling, aerial mapping and medical imaging. (NASA selected it to remotely pilot the Mars Rovers, and it was used by Lockheed to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.)

In 2011, the International 3D Society (now the Advanced Imaging Society) presented him with its Century Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Survivors include his wife, Julie, and children, Anna, Noah and Jonah.

Puff The Magic Dragon

Lenny Lipton grew up in Brooklyn. In 1958 he graduated from high school and headed off to college at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. Lenny came to the realization that he was not a little kid anymore and never would be; that made him sad.

One night in the Spring of 1959 Lenny headed for the Cornell library. He had just turned nineteen. He found a book of poems by Ogden Nash, one of which discussed a Really-o Truly-o Dragon. After he was finished he left the library, walked down the hill from Cornell into the town of Ithaca, and went to visit his friend Lenny Edelstein. The two friends were supposed to have dinner together that night.

No one was at home, but the door was unlocked so Lenny Lipton let himself in; this was not an uncommon practice in Ithaca in the late 50's. Lenny was thinking again about the loss of his carefree childhood days, and he was inspired by the poems he had been reading earlier in the evening. He sat down at the typewriter of Edelstein's roommate, Peter, and decided to write a poem of his own. He wrote for about three minutes and felt somewhat soothed. He left the poem in Peter's typewriter, and then left.

Peter returned and saw the sheet of paper in the typewriter. He was a singer/performer/concert organizer around Ithaca, in addition to being an undergraduate and doing some teaching. He liked what he saw and put some music to it, and later began to use it in some of his performances.

Peter later joined a group and used the song. It became more and more popular, and eventually the group recorded it. Within a few years it had become a top ten pop song. Peter went back and tracked down Lenny Lipton, who was by that time a counselor at a summer camp. Peter added Lenny Lipton's name as a co-writer, and Lipton has done well with the royalties he has received ever since.

Peter was Peter Yarrow, and his group was Peter, Paul and Mary. The song, which reached number 2 on the charts early in 1963, was Puff The Magic Dragon . According to Lenny Lipton, it is a simple, sentimental song about the loss of childhood and nothing more.

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Puff the magic dragon original poem

Puff the Magic

Dragon the song by

Peter, Paul & Mary

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Puff the Magic Dragon is a song about a melancholy dragon
that lived by the sea. It was originally a poem written by
Leonard Lipton in 1959, when he was 19 and going to Cornell
University. Leonard Lipton was originally inspired by
another poet who had written along a similar theme about
dragons: specifically an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the
Dragon."

Peter Yarrow, a friend and colleague of Leonard Lipton, then
took Leonard's poem "Puff the Magic Dragon," wrote more
lines and turned the whole into a song. The song became
popular when a group called "Peter, Paul and Mary" started
performing the song in 1961, then in 1963 recorded the song.
"Puff the Magic Dragon" is now a popular folk song that
still can be heard on "oldies" stations and children's
programs across the United States and Britain.

The lyrics tell of an imaginary dragon that was created by
character Jackie Paper, who then loses interest in his
imaginary friend as he grows up, and leaves him by the
seaside in Honah Lee (an imaginary land). The dragon sinks
into a depression and is not heard from again - until 2007
when an author decided to write a story about a little girl,
supposedly Jackie Paper's granddaughter, who goes to play
with the imaginary dragon and makes him happy again.

The original poem by Leonard Lipton and the added verses by
Peter Yarrow:

"Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in
the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, Little Jackie
Paper loved that rascal Puff, And brought him strings and
sealing wax And other fancy stuff.

Together they would travel On a boat with billowed sail.
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail, Noble
kings and princes Would bow when e'er they came, Pirate
ships would lower their flag when Puff Roared out his name.

A dragon lives forever, But not so little boys. Painted
wings and giant rings make way for other toys. One grey
night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more And Puff that
mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, Green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the Cherry Lane. Without
his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave, So Puff that
mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the
autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee."

Some adaptation was made to the poem by the group "Peter,
Paul and Mary" to make it more of a folk song. They added a
couple of refrains and ended some of the verses with "Oh!"
Other than that the original poem stayed mostly intact when
it made the transition to song.

The song did gain some controversial aspects during the
1960's when people associated the dragon and Puff with
marijuana smoking, which the group and the original authors
of the poem vehemently denied. The song was banned in
Singapore, along with "Yellow Submarine" and "Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles, because of the drug
culture association.

In 1978 a short television series was adapted from the poem
and song into thirty minute specials. Jackie Paper and his
Adventures of Puff were adapted and Puff was depicted as a
hero who saved children in three shows: "Puff the Magic
Dragon", "Puff The Magic Dragon and the Land of the Living
Lies," and "Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody". Burgess
Meredith played the title role.

"Puff the Magic Dragon" inspired other great television
films and is still a popular song and poem today. And even
though the poem ends sadly and the dragon doesn't live
"Happily Ever After," it is still a great poem. This poem is
more about the growing of a little boy and his imagination
than it is about the poor dragon. The song is obviously an
ode and memorial to the joys and imagination of childhood.

This reflection on life and growing up also harks back to
older days that have been left behind by most children
today. Imaginative play is much rarer among the children of
today because of the mass media cartoons, toys, games, and
video games available. A child is now much less likely to
sit down and imagine a complicated story about frolicking
with a dragon when it can watch cartoons or play a video
game.

Puff the magic dragon original poem

Janomi - Wow! I love this poem! I think it's great how you've depicted a dragon as a friendly character, rather than mean and viscious like they are normally thought of. You did an excellent job with the flow and rhyiming of this poem! It tells the story very well!

Janomi - Wow! I love this poem! I think it's great how you've depicted a dragon as a friendly character, rather than mean and viscious like they are normally thought of. You did an excellent job with the flow and rhyiming of this poem! It tells the story very well!

- hi there!! I added this poem on my new homepage as one of my favourites. hope you dont mind, if you do, or dont like the comment on it lemme know and I will remove it, if not, thanks. michael.

In-fin-ite - this was a twist from what my parents told me the song was a bout. but the flow and the form and the images put forth make it definitely a very well written piece. double so given that it was brought forth by one so young. age, I see, has not a thing to do with talent.

thanks for sharing. good luck in the contest.

~JayLynn
Edited on Jan 13, 9:17 because ''.

plinkyponk - really enjoyed reading that about dragons and Honalee. you have a way with words that is very innocent and nice to read..kinda easy on the mind! thanks

- I've got a soft spot for fairy tales and you do this one justice - you've managed to hang onto all the 'magic' of the original song. Really good work.

WranglerSteve - Such a happy continuation from an origanally sad story. It's marveolously written and I absolutely love it. Thank you so much for sharing your words with all of us here.

-Autumn- - That was excellent! Love it! I loved puff the magic dragon as a kid, and that was a great sequel! Well done!

Freedom - ah! this is awesome! i'm afraid i can't believe you are only 9. (i was looking up kid poets cuz i wanted to see what the generation just below me was like and it's pretty sweet!) very cool idea for a poem! i wrote a sequal myself to Puff (it being one of my fave songs!) but i didn't think it was deserving of this site. but, your poem's encouraged me to post my own. thanks, dude!
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HoldMe - This was good! Very inventive. A very nice idea. I liked this! Vivid descriptions that exploded to life, with Honalee and Puff, the Magic Dragon. It brings to mind the song. which was probably the itention of it. I liked it!

Danna Hobart - Yes, you finally finished it, you little stinker, now get to bed! Mommy is proud of you Buddy, this was a terrific idea for a poem.

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