In a slow-motion device of a helical scan type video tape recorder, detection is effected to detect a noise in a reproduced signal which is caused when the magnetic tape is fed such that the magnetic heads which have reproduced a preceding still image at a track transfer to the succeeding track and thereafter the magnetic heads scan the succeeding track, and the position of the magnetic tape is controlled by a tape control system so that the noise is confined within a position at a noise bar due to the noise is prevented from being displayed on the reproduction screen.