Lenny Lipton

Leonard (Lenny) Lipton (b. May 18 1940, 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. He graduated from 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. 1975) and "Independent Film Making" (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972) have become known as classics in the world of independent filmmaking.

Lipton is also a prolific filmmaker, having independently produced 25 films, including "Far Out", "Star Route" and "Children of the Golden West". Lipton has been granted twenty-five patents in the area of stereoscopic displays.

He has written many articles and four books, three of which were published by Simon & Schuster, including "Independent Filmmaking", which was the standard text on the subject for twenty years. In 1982 Van Nostrand Reinhold published his book, "Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema", which provides a wide ranging analysis of many stereoscopic topics. The book's primary focus is the stereoscopic cinema, however the book's many background sections are equally relevant to the many different types of stereoscopic display devices available today. This book provides a wealth of information for both the novice and also those already active in the field of stereoscopic imaging.

He has also been a contributor to national magazines such as Popular Photography and American Cinematographer. He is a member of The Society for Information Display, the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers, and he was the chairman of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers working group which established standards for the projection of stereoscopic theatrical films.

Filmmaker

He has, to date, independently produced twenty-five films, which are in the collection of the Pacific Film Archive of the University of California. His films have been shown on PBS, Italian Television, and the BBC.

In his role as a filmmaker, on two occasions, he was a representative of the U.S. Department of State to countries in Latin America.

tereoGraphics

He founded StereoGraphics Corporation in 1980, and created the electronic stereoscopic display industry. He is the most prolific inventor in the field and has been granted twenty-five patents in the area of stereoscopic displays. In 1996 he received an award from the Smithsonian Institution for this invention of CrystalEyes, the first practical electronic stereoscopic product for computer graphics and video applications. StereoGraphics was acquired by Real D Cinema in 2005.

Lipton now serves as CTO of StereoGraphics and has 31 patents in the field of stereoscopy and another 30 pending. The 3-D system now showing in theaters under the Real D name is his invention. It is based on the push-pull electro-optical modulator called the ZScreen.

He has lived in Los Angeles for forty years with his wife, three children and pets.

Lenny Lipton Movies Work

External References

* [http://www.lennylipton.com Lenny Lipton, Official Website: LennyLipton.com]
* [http://www.nab.org/nabshow/conferences/participantbio.asp?id=20997 Lenny Lipton, Real D CTO, bio]
* [http://www.stereoscopic.org/library/ Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Virtual Library]