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).
While critics argue about the characteristics of every film genre, there are some generally accepted categories and styles of classic films. Here's what to expect from movies made in some of the classic film genres: Meaning black movie in French, Hollywood's film noir period spanned the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Visually, black and white film noir used stark shadows and moody, dimly lit scenes.