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This paper interprets the reflection of Hollywood’s sound revolution in Singin’ in the Rain as a suggestion to its crisis created by the advent of television. Singin’ in the Rain, directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen in 1952, illustrates Hollywood’s successful transition to sound films by overcoming the crisis brought to silent films in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Among numerous studies of the film’s self-reflexivity, this paper points to the film’s production period when Hollywood faced an eminent threat of television. The film is noted for its resemblance between the two periods, where Hollywood is faced with the threat of technology both in the 1930s and 1950s. This paper interprets that the film implies more than a mere echo of another crucial period in Hollywood history and that the directors suggest a solution to their current crisis. Thus, the film finds its solution be found in the use of the industry’s current technology to its advantage: by offering greater spectacles that only the wider screen can offer and in this case enhanced musical films.
