Abstract: A superimposing and reproducing apparatus superimposes and reproduces a plurality of still pictures taken separately, e.g., a plurality of still picture signals recorded electrically without using any silver salt recording medium as a composite picture and displays it as a multiple-shot picture on an ordinary television receiver. The apparatus includes a switching circuit adapted to sequentially select the still picture signals read from the recording medium so as to produce a multiple-shot picture by virtue of the afterimage effect of vision.

Abstract: A picture recording apparatus is capable of easily confirming the quality or recorded condition of a still picture signal stored in a memory device. The memory device includes a plurality of memory units and whether the still picture signal corresponding to one frame and stored in the memory device is "good" or "bad" is discriminated by a discriminator before the next photographing. Where the apparatus includes an erase head, if the discrimination results in "bad", the content of the corresponding memory unit is erased and the content resulting from the next photographing is stored automatically in the corresponding memory unit. If the discrimination results in "good" in the apparatus or if the apparatus has no erase head, after the discrimination the content resulting from the next photographing is automatically stored in the next memory unit.