Heron of Alexandria, great inventor and tinkerer of his day, wrote two major treatises on mechanics and automata. Where we would expect to find the face of the clock, instead we find an expansive facade of a Greek temple with doors that open and close.
All action takes place behind a silhouetted screen on parallel tracks.
Some saw, others hammer. The ship is launched to sea. The ships sail across the stage. The winds pick up. The ships run with sail close-hauled.