Sacagawea ~ Sacajawea ~ Sakakawea. The only Native American woman who served as an interpreter and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805 and 1806. As a child, she had been taken by members of the Hidatsa Tribe and lived among them. Later she was sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau.
Many films are considered hybrids - they straddle several film genres. Genres History: By the end of the silent era, many of the main genres were established: the melodrama, the western, the horror film, comedies, and action-adventure films (from swashbucklers to war movies).
Hereâs a rundown courtesy of the Times. 1  LumiÃ¨re and the CinÃ©matographe. 2  Edison and the Kinetoscope and Vitascope. 3  the Silent Age of Cinema. 4  the rise and influence of the studio system. 5  the defining of classic film genres â musicals, westerns, gangster films, horror films. 6  the impact of World War II on movie making. 7  film noir and the blacklist.