To provide a relay type recording system that utilizes a plurality of existing interconnected recorders such as VTRs so as to attain video recording for a long time.

The system comprises at least one video camera 11 and a plurality of recorders 12 that records video and audio data photographed and recorded by the video camera 11, each recorders 12 is provided with a means 15 that starts recording and a means 16 that informs of end of recording, and a plurality of the recorders 12 is arranged in such a way that the means informing of the end of recording activates the means starting the recording of a succeeding recorder 12.