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[[Image :Esplanade Hotel Annexe, Bombay.JPG|right|thumb|250px|''Esplanade Hotel Annexe, Bombay'']]
==Harry Clifton Soundy (1863-1922)==
==Early Years of Clifton & Co==
[[Image:Government House, Ganeshkind.JPG|right|thumb|250px|''Government House, Ganeshkind]]
However, this partnership did not last long and by 1897, Harry Clifton Soundy was trading on his own account as Clifton & Co, from a studio in Meadows Street, Bombay. The studio was the venue for daily screenings of silent films from 1897 <ref>http://www.indiamarks.com/guide/The-First-movies/242/</ref>. (This opportunity probably arose from his father, A.F. Soundy’s involvement in the showing of the French Lumiere Brothers’ Cinematography in July – September 1896, by Marius Sestier. )<ref>http://www.victorian-cinema.net/sestier.htm; http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/film/marius-sestier-collection/</ref>
