Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Paramount's big-screen expansion of the Nickelodeon universe, adapting the beloved All That sketch into a full feature. Starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson, it captured the network's late-90s sensibility, absurdist, fast-food fueled comedy aimed squarely at kids raised on the channel's programming block. The film became a defining artifact of that era, bridging television sketch comedy and theatrical releases, and cementing Nickelodeon's brand as a cultural force beyond the small screen.
This cell preserves a piece of the Nickelodeon opening credit sequence, the branded introduction that told young audiences they were about to watch something made specifically for them. Such credit cells are prized by collectors for capturing the studio identity itself rather than a scene from the story, offering a tangible link to the network's presentation style during its formative theatrical era. As an opening credit fragment, it represents the moment before narrative begins, when brand and anticipation take center stage, a piece of cinema history tied directly to Nickelodeon's identity in the 1990s.
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 look clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, with what appears to be a dual bilateral or variable-density configuration; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are not clearly distinguishable at this size, and no DTS timecode line or SDDS outer-edge tracks are visible.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
The base shows a blue-violet tint consistent with a dye-based colour print stock; the dye image reads as warm red-brown tones with no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen on the frames shown.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and display the Nickelodeon logo, consistent with a title or bumper sequence from the film on record.
Era check
A variable-area optical track alongside a colour dye print on blue-tinted base stock is consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s theatrical release print, matching the 1997 production date of the film 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 000062538
Original Film CaptureAs received
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