A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus includes a main chassis
having a rotatable head cylinder provided thereon; a sub chassis on which
a tape cassette is mountable; and a plurality of tape pull-out members
acting so as to pull out a tape from the tape cassette. The sub chassis
is movable with respect to the main chassis between a tape cassette
mountable position and a tape pull-out completion position, and the tape
cassette mountable position is the position at which the tape cassette is
mountable on the sub chassis and the tape pull-out completion position is
the position at which information recording to, and information
reproduction from, the tape which has been pulled out from the tape
cassette and wound around the rotatable head cylinder can be performed.
All the plurality of tape pull-out members are mounted on the sub
chassis.