A second helping of historic footage at Media Museum

The films, which cover eight decades of social history, will be shown due to great public demand. The original screenings, during the Bradford Film Festival in April, were sponsored by the Telegraph & Argus and were so popular they are to be repeated.

The footage from the CH Wood archive comprises several thousand hours of film and videotape and includes coverage of Bradford City in the 1940s, location filming of Billy Liar and the 1960s regeneration of the city.

The films are now part of the Yorkshire Film Archive's collection, and archive manager Graham Relton said the screening, called A Bradford Film-maker – CH Wood, was so popular people had to be turned away.

David Wood, son of CH Wood, was at the museum for the first of two screenings of the footage. It will now be shown again at Pictureville on Tuesday, July 9, at 6pm.

The National Media Museum is also looking into a repeat of a screening at Bradford Cathedral featuring early moving pictures of Bradford’s Town Hall Square in 1897, Bradford City's 1911 FA Cup triumph, the 1954 royal visit and Harold Wilson visiting the University of Bradford in 1965.

Film festival co-director Tom Vincent said the CH Wood screenings were sell-outs.

He added: “They were in such demand and so well received that we are repeating the screening here at the museum, and we are delighted to be welcoming back David Wood and Graham Relton.”

Shot over eight decades, the archive footage also includes Wallace Arnold coach trips to the Yorkshire Coast and motor sports in the Dales.

There is also film of St Barnabas's School sports day in 1949, Salts Mill workers taking a trip to Blackpool in 1953, and motor bike and stock car racing events from 1955, including the Ilkley Grand National showing bikers ploughing through deep snow, many of them getting stuck.

To book tickets for the screening, call the National Media Museum box office on 0844 8563797 or go to national mediamuseum.org.uk.