147: Sam The Wheels

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We talk about the Brixton films of Clovis Salmon, aka Sam the Wheels, celebrated at a recent event which included a filmed portrait of ‘Super Sam’ by Sandi Hudson-Francis. See links below. And ... we are on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bandeapartpodcast Sam The Wheels – Local Brixton films 1960-2008: https://www.samthewheels.co.uk/ ‘Jesus Saves’ film at Mutiny Arts: http://www.mutinyarts.co.uk/jesussaves ‘”I went wherever there was fighting”: how Sam the Wheels filmed Brixton ablaze’, The Guardian (4 October 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/04/everything-burn-sam-wheels-filmed-brixton-ablaze-uprisings-black-britain-clovis-salmon Sandi Hudson-Francis (director), ‘Super Sam’ (2021): https://www.sandihudsonfrancis.com/film/super-sam-trailer 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning: https://www.198.org.uk/ ‘Sam the Wheels - The Great Conflict, Brixton Riots & other films (24 February – 22 April 2017): https://autograph.org.uk/exhibitions/the-great-conflict-brixton-riots-other-films ‘Sam the Wheels’, The Anthill Social: http://theanthillsocial.co.uk/archive/samthewheels/ Carol Tulloch, ‘The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives and the African Diaspora’, Bloomsbury (2016): https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/birth-of-cool-9781474262873/