The "Communities" page in this research guide and the finding aid on the Rubenstein Library's website offer straightforward access to the resources in the H. Lee Waters Film Collection. Accessing the collection through the Duke Digital Repository offers a more complex experience, allowing filtered searches and enhanced description of materials. Filters (on the left side of the Repository homepage) include format, location, and date, and provide quick links to the home movies Waters shot (see Associated Audiovisual Materials) and the oral histories that archivists at the Rubenstein Library did with H. Lee Waters' children, Tom Waters and Mary Waters Spaulding.
For those researching the world of Waters's Movies of Local People, there are two main groups of resources to pursue in the Duke Digital Repository: the movies themselves, and the pages from Waters' log books, where he recorded in detail the theatre and date of each showing, how much money he made (and spent), and sometimes the amount and type of film he showed. The log books can be accessed as a whole by selecting "Logs" under the Format filter. Log book pages associated with a particular town can be accessed by either searching for the town name in the Search box at the top of the page, or by using the Location filter and selecting a particular town name.
The Format filter may also be used to select the films Waters shot in color or black and white.
