# animate! › Films › The Old Fools by Ruth Lingford › full production credits

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, animated typography, live action and animation, ageing, death, parents, poetry film, filmmaker, animator

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**The Old Fools** a film by Ruth Lingford

2002, 5 min 37 sec

### a film by Ruth Lingford

### direction

**director**
Ruth Lingford

### based upon

**actual credit**
based upon

**title of original material**
The Old Fools

**author**
Phillip Larkin

**type of adapted source material**
poem

**copyright**
© Philip Larkin

### image personnel

**animator**
Ruth Lingford

**editor**
Jo Ann Kaplan

### sound personnel

**sound designer**
Phillipe Ciompi

### production personnel

**producer**
Jane Colling

© Ruth Lingford 2002

**The Old Fools** film, stills and other materials © Ruth Lingford 2002