Check out this recent addition to our knowledgebase to check out this old “music video” (they called them Soundies back then) from 1942, where Spike Jones and his band play an old hillbilly favorite “Pass the Biscuits Mirandy”. Shane Speal recently discovered this vid, and noticed that a cigar box guitar is part of the collection of homemade and impromptu instruments being played by the band in the video!
This is a great historical artifact… who knew they were even making music videos back in 1942, let alone including cigar box guitars in them!