# Met de ''Utrecht'' van Amsterdam naar Tokyo

KLM opens a scheduled service to Tokyo. At the invitation of KLM, a number of journalists - including Luger, Van Blankenstein and Goderie - a radio reporter and a Polygoon-Profilti cameraman made the maiden voyage. Shots of the flight of the Constellation from Schiphol to the Japanese capital via stopovers at various airports in the Middle and Far East. During the flight there will be three changes of crew and captain. After arriving in Tokyo, Mrs. Versteeg, the wife of a KLM vice president, plants an oak tree in a garden together with the governor of Tokyo. SHOTS: - KLM's director Plesman, in the light of the spotlights, shakes hands with the crew members who are lined up in front of the plane; - Press and passengers board; at Haneda Airbase (Tokyo airport) they leave the plane again; - Plane takes off from Schiphol; - Animation on a topographical map shows the route; - Int. plane: captains Henk Scholtmeyer, Hurdman and Paap are sitting at the controls. aircraft: the captains Henk Scholtmeyer, Hurdman, and Paap sit successively at the controls; the flight engineer keeps an eye on his panel full of clocks, hands, and meters; the navigator sits behind his radio compass and his maps; div. Various shots of the passengers: sleeping, eating, talking; a few small children run through the aisle or look amazed into the camera; the stewardess serves the breakfasts that the steward hands her from the galley; - Various aerial shots (often showing the right wing with the propeller(s)…

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_652530)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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