THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS A COPY OF ‘THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED,’ BUT YOU WON’T SEE IT FOR TEN YEARS

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times from Wednesday, Rob Stone, the moving-image curator at the Library of Congress, has divulged that the Library has recently acquired an extensive collection of Jerry Lewis material, including the film negative of one of the most storied, well-nigh apocryphal movies in cinema history, his The Day the Clown Cried, the 1972 movie Lewis directed and starred in that tracks the activities of a circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp