Apparatus for reproducing video signals as slow-motion pictures

In an apparatus for slow-motion reproduction of a video signal having successive field thereof, along with respective pilot signals, recorded in successive oblique tracks on a magnetic tape, a tracking error signal is based on the pilot signals reproduced from the magnetic tape, a capstan motor intermittently transports the tape between a first rest position, in which a field segment of the video signal is repeatedly reproduced from an initial one of alternate oblique tracks, rest position, to a second in which another field segment of the video signal is repeatedly reproduced from the next one of the alternate oblique tracks. A circuit controls a driving circuit for the capstan motor so that the transportation of the magnetic tape from the first to second rest position is responsive to the tracking error signal obtained in the first rest position, that is, prior to transportation of the magnetic tape.