Magnetic tape cassette with screening shield

A magnetic tape cassette, especially a compact cassette, comprising lower and upper cassette housing parts having side walls, the front wall being provided with an entry aperture for a magnetic head associated with a recording/playback apparatus and, facing this aperture, a screening shield secured in the cassette housing by holding means, wherein the screening shield is in the form of an arcuately shaped strip of resiliently deformable "soft" magnetic material, and wherein there are provided means, including said holding means, which incident to the insertion of the strip into the cassette housing flex said strip into a shape of reduced arcuity and after said insertion hold the strip in the last-mentioned shape under flexural stress, said holding means comprising members bearing against two longitudinally spaced portions of said strip from one side and against a portion of said strip intermediate said spaced portions from the other side.