{"id":12288,"date":"2022-10-07T17:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2022-12-02T17:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:43:20","slug":"lenny-lipton-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/07\/lenny-lipton-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Lipton Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lenny Lipton, \u201cPuff the Magic Dragon\u201d Lyricist and 3D Filmmaking Pioneer, Dies at 82<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>After the huge success of the Peter, Paul and Mary hit, he founded StereoGraphics and developed an electro-optical modulator known as ZScreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/author\/carolyn-giardina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CAROLYN GIARDINA<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/author\/mike-barnes-thr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MIKE BARNES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puff The Magic Dragon (1978) FULL FEATURE\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FyhTBvLu4w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the Peter, Paul and Mary hit \u201cPuff the Magic Dragon\u201d and developed technology used for today\u2019s digital 3D theatrical projection systems, has died. He was 82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lipton died Wednesday of brain cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Noah told&nbsp;<em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While studying engineering as a freshman at Cornell University, Lipton, inspired by a 1936 Ogden Nash poem, \u201cThe Tale of Custard the Dragon,\u201d wrote a poem in 1959 on a typewriter owned by another physics major at the school, Peter Yarrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/music-news\/lenny-lipton-dead-puff-magic-dragon-1235235205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter Lenny Lipton, \u201cPuff the Magic Dragon\u201d 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. BY\u00a0CAROLYN GIARDINA,\u00a0MIKE BARNES Lenny Lipton, who wrote the poem that became the Peter, Paul and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}