# animate! › Films › The Old Fools by Ruth Lingford

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/oldfools/

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

![The Old Fools, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/oldfools07.jpg)

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### a film by Ruth Lingford

### animate! synopsis

A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise based on Philp Larkin’s poem of the same name, voiced by Bob Geldof.

### key credits

**director**
Ruth Lingford

**animator**
Ruth Lingford

**editor**
Jo Ann Kaplan

**sound designer**
Phillipe Ciompi

**producer**
Jane Colling

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