Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies' bet that the sketch chemistry of All That could carry a feature. Built around Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, it turned their television rapport into a modest theatrical run and became a defining artifact of Nickelodeon's push into film production during the network's 1990s peak. The pairing of Dexter Reed and Ed as a comic duo was central to that appeal, giving young audiences two distinct personalities, one sharp and put-upon, one guileless and unshakably sunny, thrown together by circumstance.
This cell isolates the two leads in an undercover capacity, a plot thread that sends the pair into a rival restaurant's operation and plays on the mismatch between Dexter's scheming and Ed's inability to maintain any pretense. For collectors, it represents the film's engine, the friction and loyalty between these two characters, preserved as a physical frame from the story's investigative stretch, a keepsake of the partnership that made the movie work.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm colour release print of Good Burger (1997).
Gauge
35mm, four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both edges, evenly spaced; punched edges appear clean with no torn or missing perforations visible.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along one edge beside the picture area, appearing as a two-track variable-area format; Dolby Digital pixel blocks are not clearly distinguishable at this resolution.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at readable resolution.
Base & colour
Base shows a warm to neutral tint; dye image appears saturated with strong magenta and yellow couplers consistent with a colour release print.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a projected print that has passed through a gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot, and the colourful costumed figures are consistent with the comedic visual style of the film on record.
Era check
The variable-area optical soundtrack, colour dye coupler base, and perforation pitch are all consistent with a mid-to-late 1990s 35mm theatrical release print, matching the 1997 release 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 000062567
Original Film CaptureAs received
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