Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Paramount and Nickelodeon's big-screen bet on their sketch-comedy hit All That, pairing Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell in a feature built around a scrappy fast food joint fending off a corporate rival. It became a modest theatrical release that found its real life afterward, syndicated endlessly and quoted by a generation raised on cable reruns, cementing itself as a defining artifact of 90s Nickelodeon crossover cinema.
This cell centers on Ed, Kel Mitchell's cashier, whose cheerful and eccentric disposition is the character's whole identity and the engine of much of the film's comedy. Collectors seek Ed material because he is the film's most quotable and merchandised figure, the face people picture when they think of Good Burger at all. A cell like this, drawn straight from the release print, preserves a piece of that character's screen presence, a physical fragment of a performance that outgrew its modest theatrical run.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour release print of Good Burger (1997).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges; spacing appears even and the punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a single bilateral variable-area track; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are not clearly distinguishable at this size, and no DTS timecode stripe or SDDS outer-edge tracks are visible.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at readable resolution; the strip is rotated and edge margins are too small to resolve any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base shows a warm, slightly amber-purple tint consistent with a colour print stock; the dye image appears intact with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible splices, cue marks, or heavy scratching are apparent; the surface appears consistent with a projected release print.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with a theatrical release print of Good Burger (1997).
Era check
The single bilateral variable-area optical soundtrack, colour print stock with warm base tint, and 35mm four-perforation format are all consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s theatrical release print.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000062524
Original Film CaptureAs received
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