A still picture recording and reproduction apparatus in which a still picture imaged on a frame transfer CCD is recorded on a rotary magnetic disk and then read for display on a TV using interlace scanning with A-fields and B-fields, corresponding to odd and even numbered lines are separately read and then time expanded. The time expansion may be performed on reproducing from the magnetic disk or performed on recording on separate tracks of the disk in which case one of the fields is time delayed to make the two types of fields to be in phase.