Excerpt: “For the first time, the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center at the Library of Congress is making material from Jerry Lewis’ unfinished Holocaust film ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ available for research use. The Library holds a portion of pre-print material from the film, however, the Library does not hold the complete film. Lewis rewrote, directed and starred in the film as a German circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp who entertains Jewish children in the camp. During Lewis’ visit to the Library’s Culpeper campus in October 2015, he spoke of his deep emotional connection to the subject matter, which caused great pain and regret when he was unable to finish the film. When Lewis’ personal collection was acquired by the Library in 2014, a gift/purchase agreement signed on Aug. 27, 2014, placed a 10-year restriction on some of the materials until August 2024. The Library is now providing onsite access to the material for viewing and listening only.”
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