Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
Sources: Wikidata. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as an extension of the Nickelodeon sketch that made Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell into a natural comic duo, spun off from All That into a full theatrical feature. Paramount released it into a market crowded with teen comedies, but its fast food setting and easy chemistry gave it lasting appeal among a generation raised on the network. The film's modest scale and sketch comedy roots are part of why it still draws affection decades later, standing as one of the more visible attempts to move a kids' variety show property onto the big screen.
This cell preserves a piece of film carrying the picture's opening identification, the card that announces the movie by name before the story begins. Such cells are collected for marking the exact threshold where a production states itself to the audience, a plain but essential fragment of the release print. For fans of Good Burger, owning this moment ties directly to the film's origin and branding, the instant the title itself takes the screen.
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 each edge; spacing appears even and the punched holes appear cleanly cut with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical soundtrack track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a two-track variable-area pattern.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture.
Base & colour
Base appears clear with a slight warm-pink cast to the dye image; no obvious fading or heavy colour shift detected.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the content is consistent with a mid-1990s live-action comedy feature matching the film on record.
Era check
The variable-area optical soundtrack, clear polyester-type base, and colour dye characteristics are all consistent with a mid-1990s theatrical release print of the period when Good Burger (1997) would have been struck.
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 000062542
Original Film CaptureAs received
Photographed on the light panel at intake, before encapsulation — tap to open full size
Tap to enlarge
