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 sketch that Kenan and Kel had built their names on. It was a modest studio bet, aimed squarely at the network's young audience, but it endures as one of the defining teen comedies of that era's kid-TV-to-film pipeline, a snapshot of late nineties Nickelodeon culture translated to 35mm.
This cell centers on Ed, the good-natured, scrambled-brained fry cook whose logic never quite lines up with anyone else's, placing him at the counter of the restaurant that gives the film its name. That location is the heart of the story, the site of every deal, disaster, and customer exchange that drives the plot forward. For collectors, Ed at the counter is close to the character's essential pose, the everyday post from which his particular brand of confusion radiates outward through the rest of the picture.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour release print of Good Burger (1997).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on each edge; spacing appears even; edges of the perforation holes appear cleanly punched with no visible tearing.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a dual-bilateral (two-track) waveform pattern.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
Base appears with a slight warm-amber tint consistent with a colour print stock; dye image shows no obvious fading or red shift.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has been projected.
Picture
Positive colour image; all three frames appear to be from the same continuous shot; subject matter and set dressing are consistent with the 1997 Paramount/Nickelodeon production Good Burger.
Era check
The dual-bilateral variable-area optical track, colour print stock, and base tint are all consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s 35mm 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 000062565
Original Film CaptureAs received
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