Memorabalia from The Shining on show at Stanley Kubrick, The Exhibition at the Design Museum

Apollo 11 jumper - the original worn by Danny Lloyd who played Danny Torrance, the young boy in The Shining, the thriller  directed by Stanley Kubrick.  Descriptions at the Design Museum exhibition credited the sweater to American director Lee Unkrich, who lives in Kentfield, California.

Photo by Lucia Carpio.

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As we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Man landing on the Moon, it was wonderful to see this hand-knitted sweater - featuring an Apollo 11 rocket - worn by young Danny Lloyd who played Danny Torrance (son of Jack Nicholson's character) in the Stanley Kubrick 1980 thriller The Shining.  It is one of the many exhibits on show at the Design Museum in London, in the magnificent Stanley Kubrick, The Exhibition currently running until 15 September.  The memorable scenes in The Shining feature 5-year-old Danny in the Apollo jumper riding his tricycle in the haunting corridors of the Overlook Hotel when suddenly he encounters the ghosts of twin girls who had been murdered in the hotel. 

Dresses and shoes worn by Lisa and Louise Burns as Grady's daughters, from the Stanley Kubrick Archive, University of the Arts London.
Picture taken at an exhibition at the Design Museum, featuring original costumes used in
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and all of the great director's great movies.

Photo by Lucia Carpio.

Further research revealed that according to British actor Leon Vitali, who was personal assistant of Mr Kubrick at that time, Danny's sweater was knitted by a friend of award-wining costume designer Milena Canonero, who had worked with Kubrick on a number of movies including The Shining.  Vitali said in a 2017 interview in The Guardian that  Canonero thought the jumper was "just the sort of thing that a kid that age would have liked."