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 a recurring All That sketch into a full feature. Built around Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, it captured the network's late-90s comedic voice and became a defining artifact of Nickelodeon's push into theatrical releases. For a generation raised on the channel, the film represents that crossover moment when a television sketch could fill a movie house, and its modest studio backing only adds to its charm as a product of a specific, tightly branded era in kids' entertainment.
This cell preserves the Nickelodeon opening credit, the studio's own signature moment that opens the film before any Good Burger footage begins. It is the kind of frame collectors seek not for character or plot but for brand history, a physical fragment of how the network announced itself to audiences transitioning from television to cinema. As an opening credit piece, it carries the ceremonial weight of introduction, marking the threshold between Nickelodeon's identity and the story about to unfold, making it a keepsake for those who trace the studio's presence across its film ventures.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm color release print of Good Burger (1997).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame visible 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 the bottom edge of the picture area, with what appears to be a dual bilateral or variable-density waveform pattern consistent with an analog optical 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; the edges are obscured by the film-strip graphic border.
Base & colour
The base shows a warm-to-neutral tint; the dye image reads with strong orange-red and deep blue-purple tones, consistent with a color print stock in good dye condition.
Projection history
No visible scratches, splice marks, or cue marks are seen in this capture.
Picture
Positive color image; all three frames appear to be the same or near-identical frame of a Nickelodeon-branded title card, consistent with a release print of the film on record.
Era check
The analog optical soundtrack format, color print stock, and Nickelodeon branding are all consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s theatrical release print, matching the 1997 release date of Good Burger.
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 000062539
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
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