Cy Young

Cyrus "Cy" Young (Chinese: 楊左匋) was a Chinese-American special effects animator, best known for his work for Walt Disney Productions.
Young was brother of Chinese politician Yang Qianli (father of Hong Kong director and lyric writer Evan Yang), architect Yang Xiliu, entrepreneur Yang Xiren, and Yang Renlan (mother of sociologist Fei Xiaotong). He had worked in China called Pause and New Year. Young's first work in the United States was as lead animator on the 1931 short "Mendelssohn's Spring Song", a project completed while he was a student in New York City. Disney was so impressed with his work that he hired him to be head of the new special effects animation department and he partnered with animator Ugo D'Orsi.
Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston wrote in their book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, they said, "Through the entire thirties, the entire Effects Department consisted of only two men: Ugo D'Orsi, a straightforward, stubborn, and dedicated Italian, and Cy Young...quiet and sensitive...who loved to play the bass fiddle as a hobby." Thomas and Johnston added, "Since [D'Orsi and Young] did most of the careful work themselves, they needed only a single assistant between them." The department's first major project was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Young also provided the delicate visual design of the woods and meadows in Bambi. He worked on Fantasia and Dumbo as well.
Young left the studio after the 1941 Disney animators' strike and worked as a staff artist and clerk at the Air Force, where he worked on various projects. He committed suicide in 1964.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1933	Birds in the Spring 	animator - uncredited
1933	Father Noah's Ark 	animator - uncredited
1933	Mickey's Gala Premier 	effects animator - uncredited
1933	Old King Cole 	animator - uncredited
1933	The Pied Piper 	animator - uncredited
1933	Giantland 	animator - uncredited
1934	Shanghaied 	animator - uncredited
1934	The Grasshopper and the Ants 	animator - uncreditedeffects animator - uncredited
1934	Funny Little Bunnies 	animator - uncredited
1934	Gulliver Mickey 	animator - uncredited
1934	Hollywood Party 	animator - uncredited
1934	The Flying Mouse 	animator - uncredited
1934	Servants' Entrance 	animator - uncredited
1934	Mickey Plays Papa 	animator - uncredited
1934	The Goddess of Spring 	animator - uncreditedeffects animator - uncredited
1934	Two-Gun Mickey 	animator - uncredited
1935	The Band Concert 	animator - uncredited
1935	Water Babies 	animator - uncredited
1935	Mickey's Fire Brigade 	animator - uncredited
1935	Music Land 	animator - uncreditedeffects animator - uncredited
1935	Broken Toys 	animator - uncreditedeffects animator - uncredited
1936	Mickey's Rival 	effects animator - uncredited
1936	Mickey's Grand Opera 	animator - uncredited
1936	Moving Day 	animator - uncredited
1936	The Country Cousin 	animator - uncredited
1937	Woodland Café 	animator - uncreditedeffects animator - uncredited
1937	The Old Mill 	animator - uncredited
1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	animator
1938	Mickey's Trailer 	animator - uncredited
1939	Society Dog Show 	animator - uncredited
1940	Fantasia 	animator - segments: "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor""Nutcracker Suite""The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
1941	Dumbo 	animator
1942	Bambi 	animator - uncredited
1946	Make Mine Music 	animator - uncredited"Blue Bayou" - animator
1996	Clair de Lune 	animator
1999	Fantasia 2000 	"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" - animator - uncredited
==External links==
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*Pictures from early Young shorts
==References==
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