A THONGSBRIDGE man is on a mission to put a smile on people’s faces – all 200 of them.

In what is believed to be the first event of its kind, filmmaker John Edmonds wants people to gather in the town’s Piazza and pull their biggest and cheesiest grins.

Their smiles will be captured on video and then broadcast to the world on internet site YouTube.

John, 60, is hoping the video will become an online sensation and encourage people in other towns and cities across the world to follow suit.

And the point of this gnasher-flashing event? Simply to have a good time.

John said: “There’s no political, social or any other motivation for doing this. I just thought it would be good to see lots of happy, smiling faces in the town.

“I think many of us feel we’re living in an unhappy society and I’m tired of reading all the bad news about people in a very small part of the community.

“I thought something like this would be a very positive thing for people to get involved with and hopefully they will come along and have some fun.”

John, who runs a video-making business called Time Trappers, has had success all over the world with videos he has already posted online.

These include a film of the Antony Gormley statue in Liverpool, which received 25,000 hits.

John is hoping his new video, called Huddersfield’s Got Smiles, will achieve one million viewings on the broadcasting site.

He said: “As far as I know this is the first event of its kind so it’s a chance for people to be a part of history.

“The whole world could soon be looking at Huddersfield and hopefully this will help promote the town.

“It would be great if the idea caught on and we could see everywhere from Devon to Tokyo holding their own Got Smiles events.”

John wants at least 200 people to take part in the Huddersfield event.

To join in the fun anyone can turn up at the Piazza between 10am and 4pm on Saturday.

All they need to do is flash their best or even wacky smiles for five seconds of video. The film will be broadcast on YouTube two days after the event and it will be under 10 minutes long.

To see the results go to channel VIDEOMAN1302.