This 1960s color film without sound shows scenes from different Volkswagen (VW) dealerships around the United States as part of a promotional film, specifically tracing the journey of one white Volkswagen Beetle. The film opens by zooming in on a map of Maryland with Hagerstown highlighted (0:17). The camera pans around the parking lot of the Sharrett Volkswagen dealership there, then shows employees watching as a white Volkswagen Beetle with its hood up and a wheel missing is lifted onto a jack in the service shop. A toy white Beetle sits in front of a pink sign reading, “On this grand opening day of Sharrett Volkswagen, Inc. we welcome the management and staff to the Volkswagen Dealer Organization. November 18, 1969.” (1:37). The camera then zooms out to reveal that the sign sits on a shelf in a VW employee’s office. The employee opens a VW folder and shows it to another man, another VW employee. This employee points to figures on a graph next to charts showing “Monthly Sales” and “Used Car Sales” (2:01). Men at the table applaud and he sits down. A VW employee in a suit walks past a Volkswagen Bus in the showroom (3:00), asks at a counter, and goes to look at a white VW Beetle on a jack in the service shop. A customer drives a VW vehicle off the lot from the service/body shop (3:57). A VW Squareback arrives at the service area at Sharrett. The map then highlights Worcester, Virginia, and shows the Volkswagen dealership there (4:43). A salesman talks to a young family in the showroom next to a white VW Beetle; an employee takes a folder from his desk and walks into the service shop. The map then highlights Cumberland, Maryland (6:03) and the Cumberland Valley Volkswagen dealership. The camera zooms in on a “Used Cars” sign in the parking lot (6:39). A VW employee walks up to a man behind a counter to discuss something in a folder. The map highlights the Richter dealership in Morgantown, West Virginia (7:44). An employee comes into an executive’s office to show him something on a piece of paper (8:16). The camera shows tools hanging on a tool bench wall and then zooms out to reveal a white VW Beetle sitting in the service shop (8:58). The map highlights Bluefield, West Virginia, where a white VW Beetle is in the service shop (9:25). A sign in front of the counter reads, “Customer Rental Cars.” A female employee walks into a more senior employee’s office and shows him a piece of paper. The map highlights the Don Wood dealership in Chattanooga, Tennessee (10:50). A salesman walks upstairs from the showroom. A young woman with short hair tries out a VW car in the showroom (12:49). The white VW Beetle is loaded onto a trailer and driven across a bridge (14:00), presumably to a ship. The camera zooms in on a Norwegian flag on a Volkswagen ship (14:22), and then, seconds later, on an American flag at a VW dealership.

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