Scanlines disappear when screen scrolls vertically?

Not necessarily. Fast(er) motion is often created by skipping pixels and letting your brain fill in the blanks (kinda like what’s happening with the scanlines!). That is, instead of a pixel’s location over time being 0, 1, 2, 3, …, it’s 0, 2, 4, 6 … . That will still look like smooth motion, just with the latter looking 2x as fast as the former.

Also, as dave_j said, you’d have scanlines moving at different rates for things like parallax scrolling, etc.