. "American filmmaker" . "Leonard \"Lenny\" Lipton (born May 18, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is a well-known author, filmmaker and stereoscopic vision system inventor.Lipton wrote the lyrics to the song \"Puff the Magic Dragon\" as a 19-year-old at Cornell University, where he majored in physics. The song was a hit in 1963 for Peter, Paul and Mary. Two of Lipton's books, The Super 8 Book (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books."@en . "1940Z"^^ . "1940-05-18Z"^^ . "Lipton, Lenny"@en .