Gene Kelley and Stanley Donen’s Singin’ in the Rain is a classic Hollywood musical about making movies, but takes place during the time when actors were faced with the challenge from going to silent to sound production. My personal favorite scene in the film Singin’ in the Rain, is the sound barrier scene where Rosco becomes frustrated because Lina won’t talk to into the microphone which is hidden in the bush. During this experimentation with an entirely new form of production, people in this industry had to produce a workable system for recording and projecting sound. During this time, cameras were indeed housed in soundproof booths called blimps and microphones were hidden almost in plain view, such as the bush in Lina and Don’s The Dueling
