The men and women who worked on M*A*S*H were professionals but sometimes mistakes were made. Here’s footage of director of photography Dominic Palmieri accidentally walking in front of a camera during filming in the O.R. This is from a M*A*S*H blooper reel.
The blooper was from the season 7 finale “The Party”. The scene takes place while Radar reads Peg’s letter from the reunion.
I love how David Ogden Stiers looks like he just wants to murder Dominic for ruining the shot.
I love how the cast and crew laugh and no one yells or cusses about the mess up!
I loved this episode, primarily because of that guest appearance by Robert Goulet.
In the final cut Charles isn’t in the frame during those few seconds of dialogue, instead we see closeups of Potter, then Radar, then Klinger.
As director of photography it is a fun mistake for Dominic to have made … they probably had fun with that for a while.
I think everyone’s laughing because of how embarrassing that must be. I thought david was going to go through him.