Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Paramount and Nickelodeon's leap from Saturday morning sketch comedy to the multiplex, built around All That's breakout duo Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson. Directed by Brian Robbins, it capitalized on the network's hold over a generation raised on its programming block, proving that Nickelodeon's television brand could sustain a feature film. For collectors of 90s youth culture and Nickelodeon ephemera, it stands as a marker of the studio's crossover ambitions during that decade.
This cell preserves the Nickelodeon opening credit sequence, the studio's on screen signature before the story begins. Such credit cells mark the handshake between broadcaster and audience, the moment the network stakes its name to what follows. For collectors, these openers hold value as artifacts of brand identity, the visual shorthand that told a generation of viewers they were about to watch something made specifically for them, tying the feature directly back to its television origins.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical 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, evenly spaced and appearing cleanly punched with no visible torn or deformed holes.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical soundtrack track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, consistent with a mono or stereo optical print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read key numbers or stock codes.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight blue-violet tint; the dye image reads as a warm red-brown dominant, consistent with a color release print.
Projection history
Fine horizontal lines are visible across the frame area, consistent with projection wear on a used print.
Picture
Positive color image; all three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single animated logo shot and match the Nickelodeon branding consistent with the film on record.
Era check
The variable-area optical soundtrack, color dye image, and blue-tinted polyester base are all consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s theatrical release print, matching the 1997 production date on record.
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 000062537
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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