But Holmes felt he would have to create a scripted version of her story, until he learned that the Maiden had had S-VHS cameras onboard. At each of Maiden’s six stopovers on the race, video footage was handed off to local news organizations who chopped up tape for all kinds of broadcast feeds. “This was the story where they didn’t win the race,” Holmes said. And even when it didn’t seem that it would, Holmes didn’t have to look far for inspiration. There were times when it looked like it was not going to be possible to put this film together.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 03, 2020 21:56 UTC