Visible crew/equipment: When Margaret listens in on Frank's phone conversation with his wife, Margaret throws a chair at him and storms out of the office, and after she calls Frank a chinless chipmunk a boom mic dips into view at the top, left corner of the screen.
Visible crew/equipment: As BJ comes around to take the wounded soldier to Post-Op, he walks in front of the camera. As he does so, the shadow of the camera can be seen on his back.
Visible crew/equipment: When the camera angle changes to look at the cover being put over the soldier's head, the camera is briefly reflected until the cover is locked in place.
Visible crew/equipment: As Potter turns away from looking at Burns rousting a man, he walks past the camera talking to himself. As he gets close to the camera, the shadow of the boom mic plays on his left sleeve.
Dear Sigmund - S5-E7
Visible crew/equipment: As Potter is panning with the binoculars, you can see the lights, camera and crew reflected in the lens.
Dear Sigmund - S5-E7
Visible crew/equipment: As Potter pans around looking with binoculars, the lighting rig and a crew member can be seen reflected in the lenses.
Visible crew/equipment: As Potter and Hawkeye look at the totalled and burning jeep, the shadow of the camera's shade can be seen at the lower left corner of the shot.
The General's Practitioner - S5-E20
Visible crew/equipment: When the Colonel that Hawkeye referred to as "Bozo" is talking to General Korso on the way to the 4077th to get Hawkeye, you can see the shadow of the camera on the Colonel's lap.
Visible crew/equipment: As Margaret gets into the chopper, the lighting rigs, camera and crew are reflected in the canopy.
Visible crew/equipment: After Potter tells Klinger that his lawyer, Schaeffer, is a fake who's impersonated a chaplain among other things, when Schaeffer tells them that 25 couples are living in sin, in the next shot two curved chalk actor's marks can be seen on the floor. (00:35:45)
Visible crew/equipment: When Colonel Potter surprises everybody with his "little Olympics" idea in the mess tent, after Margaret comments, "I just know I'm not going to have anything left for Donald," at the start of the next shot the boom mic casts a very quick moving shadow on BJ.
Visible crew/equipment: While Colonel Potter has everyone gathered in the mess tent to surprise them with his "little Olympics" idea, the studio soundstage is visible at the top, left side of the screen.
Visible crew/equipment: As Hawkeye walks over to the Colonel, there appears to be a lighting rig, or a reflector, over the Colonel's cot in the upper left of the shot. (00:20:35)
Visible crew/equipment: As Hawkeye is first approaching Danker during the triage scene, a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen.
Comrades in Arms: Part 2 - S6-E13
Visible crew/equipment: While Margaret and Hawkeye are hiding under the mat, just as the armed North Korean collapses to the floor the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible on the wall.
Visible crew/equipment: While in the mess tent, after Margaret's grossed out by the smell and walks away we hear Charles start playing again, and when Colonel Potter says, "Just make sure the three of you work this out fast," in this shot we can see the actor's T-mark on the floor between Potter and Hawkeye, where Margaret stood a moment ago.
Visible crew/equipment: In the compound, as the camera pans to follow Potter coming toward Hawkeye, the corner of the studio is easily seen through the camo net, above the building.
Visible crew/equipment: After Margaret tells Hawkeye that he ran the siege pretty well then salutes him, when it cuts to BJ returning to camp with the wounded GI, the boom mic dips into view at the top of the screen.
Peace on Us - S7-E2
Visible crew/equipment: When Radar gets off the phone with the guard at Panmunjom and tells Colonel Potter and BJ that Hawkeye's gone on ahead, at the start of the next shot we can see the back of the soundstage set at the top, right side of the screen. And notice that Hawkeye's and the guards' voices are echoey on the soundstage in this shot.
Answer: The C-42 was a military variant of the Douglas DC-2. Very few C-42's were built, so it's questionable that Potter would specifically have seen that particular model, but, given his military background, it's not entirely unreasonable that he might use the military designation even when the aircraft in question is actually a civilian DC-2.
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