Audiovisual Recorded Media Appraisal Expert Witness

Principal & Appraiser

• Full time independent, certified appraiser of audiovisual-recorded media for clients throughout North America and in Europe.
• He is unique in his qualifications, fully competent in all areas & appraisal disciplines of audiovisual-recorded media. There are few media-related technologies, issues, strategies or situations that he has not explored in depth during his career of more than 30 years of evaluation background.
• Earned a doctorate in audiovisual-recorded media at Indiana University. He served there as professor, international media distributor & University administrator, as well as at the University of Illinois & Alabama A & M University.
• Confidential & Professional, Unbiased & Accurate, Certified financial Appraisals of  Personal Collectibles & Corporate Collections, Archives, Libraries & Individual Items of  All  Audiovisual Recorded Media Property & Assets  for Any Purpose and Function
• Insurance Premiums & Claims
• Charitable Donations
• Sale & Purchase
• Damage, Loss & Fraud
• Litigation Support & Evidence
• Inspection & Investigation
• Estate & Gift  Taxes
• Dissolution & Equitable Distribution
  Forensic Appraisal
• Expert Testimony
• Authentication & Identification

Appraisal Expertise

• Motion Pictures & Video
• Sound Recordings, Broadcasts
• Photographs
• Negatives & Prints
• Slides & Transparencies
• Animation Cells
• Cameras & Projectors
• Scripts, Media Literature, Cinemabilia & Posters
• Illustration Art & Sheet Music
• Presidential & Documentary Materials
• Natural & Behavioral Science Media
• Confidential, Security Classified, and Proprietary Media
• Values / Purposes & Functions / Assigned Uses
• Any value, including all fair market value definitions and replacement, liquidation & marketable cash values
• Appraisal Approaches to Estimating Value
• Market data / sales comparison approach
• Cost of replacement / reproduction approach
• Income production / investment return approach

What is a Media Appraisal?

• An appraisal of audiovisual-recorded media complies with current Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and other professional standards to determine descriptive & evaluative characteristics of the media. An appraisal result in an objective certified report of the value of  audiovisual-recorded media assets

Who Uses Appraisals of Audiovisual-Recorded Media?

• Filmmakers
• Archivists
• Artists & Producers
• Photographers
• Sound Recordists
• Bank Officers
• Insurance Underwriters
• Claims Adjusters
• Attorneys
• Musicians
• Accountants
• Museum Curators
• Auctioneers
• Gallery Owners
• Estate Administrators
• Government Agencies
• Collectors & Connoisseurs
• Laboratories
• Judges
• Conservators
• Preservationists
• Liquidators
• Repairers &. Restorers
• Financial Planners
• Moving & Storage Firms

Who Are Our Clients?

Anyone interested in determining, exploring, or defending the financial or other value of all audiovisual-recorded media assets & related ownership rights, for  any  purpose or  function, including charitable donation tax  deductions, law suits, insurance premiums & claims sales & Estate taxes.

Mission
To expedite the valuation & transfer of private property by creating certified appraisal report documents & providing disposition counsel about all audiovisual-recorded media property, assets & ownership rights, for any purpose & function.

Related Consultancy

• Collection Administration & Curating
• Indexing, Documentation & Cataloging
• Inventorying
• Acquisition & Deaccessioning
• Dispersal
• Research & Evaluation
• Expert Testimony, Demonstration, Instruction
• Litigation Support, Case Evaluation & Development

Why Use A Media Appraiser?

• A skilled, experienced, knowledgeable media appraiser assures successful, accurate & defensible resolution of matters of value. Only an appraiser creates certified appraisal report documents.

Professional Affiliation

• The Only Senior Certified / Accredited Member of All Relevant Appraisal Societies
• American Society of Appraisers (Accredited) ASA
• Appraisers Association of America (Certified) AAA
• International Society of Appraisers (Accredited) ISA
• Media Appraisal Consultants
• History of Photography Group
• Appraisal institute of America
• National Forensic Center
• Appraisal Foundation
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
• Society of American Archivists
• Association of Moving Image Archivists
• National Center for Film & Video Preservation
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections
• Picture Agency Council of America
• American Society of Media Photographers
• International Society of Audiovisual & Sound Archives
• Credible, Accurate, Persuasive Expert Testimony
• Case Review, Development & Evaluation
• Exclusive National Representation