Nickelodeon Movies · Tollin/Robbins Productions · 103 min
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FILM NOTES
Good Burger arrived in 1997 as Paramount's bet on the Nickelodeon generation, expanding the "All That" sketch into a full feature and giving Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell their first starring vehicle. It captured a specific late nineties teen comedy sensibility, low budget, high energy, built around fast food absurdity and buddy chemistry, and it holds a lasting place as one of the defining Nickelodeon film crossovers of its decade, a marker of the network's push from television into theaters.
This cell centers on Dexter Reed and Ed, the two leads whose pairing carries the entire film. Dexter, the sharp schemer, and Ed, the guileless dreamer, are the reason audiences return to Good Burger, their dynamic being the engine of the story rather than any single scene. A cell naming both characters together points to their partnership itself as the subject, the kind of pairing collectors seek out precisely because it distills the film's core relationship into a single frame from the reel.
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 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, consistent with a standard mono or stereo optical release print.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read manufacturer codes or key numbers clearly.
Base & colour
The base shows a slight blue-violet tint typical of a colour print stock; the dye image appears warm and saturated with 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; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single shot and the colour palette and production design are consistent with a mid-1990s live-action comedy release matching the film on record.
Era check
The variable-area optical track, blue-tinted polyester base, and colour dye saturation are all consistent with a theatrical release print from the mid-to-late 1990s, 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 000062571
Original Film CaptureAs received
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