abstract:"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a 30-minute animated television film released on October 30, 1978, based on the song of the same name. The title character was voiced by Burgess Meredith.
The loser of one popular game has to do a "forfeit, " such as singing "Puff theMagicDragon" at the top of the mast, drinking beer through a snorkel and even swimming in shark-infested water.
Winblad remembers Gates disappearing on a dark beach after his group had been given the word sea, and then slowly emerging from the mist singing a high-pitched solo of Puff, theMagicDragon.