The document provides a history of poetry film, from one of the earliest examples in 1905 adapting Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" to silent films set to poems in the 1920s. It discusses several pioneering poetry films and filmmakers that combined images, poetry, and sound in experimental ways. More recently, developments in video and digital technologies have enabled more artists and poets to create poetry films and multimedia works that blend words and moving images.