PURPOSE: To constitute thinly a VTR by shifting the inner/outer frames in a single body in the horizontal direction, and further, shifting the inner frame in the upper and lower directions while the frame is maintained in the horizontal condition by a synchronizing mechanism assembled between the inner and outer frames.

CONSTITUTION: When a cassette C is inserted into the cassette holder composed of inner outer frames 21 and 12 and the starting button is pushed, by the rotation of the counter-clock-wise direction of a main gear pair 3 to gear with a rack gear 22 of both sides of the lower surface of the inner frame 21, the inner outer frames are unified and sent in the direction in VTR. Next, when the gear 3 is geared with the vertical part of the gear 22, the outer frame 12 ceases to shift, the inner frame 21 is shifted in the lower direction by the guiding of a synchronizing gear 17 and a rack gear 25 of the right and left synchronizing mechanism, a reel stand 5 is protruded from a hole and fitted to the reel of the cassette. Consequently, the dimensions in the upper and lower directions of a synchronizing mechanism to elevate the inner frame 21 can be shortly formed, the VTR main body can be made thin.