LONDON (AFP) - Iconic props from The Shining and 2001: A Space Odyssey that detail the perfectionism of American film-maker Stanley Kubrick are among the highlights of a new London show dedicated to the late artist.

Visitors can discover his universe and special relationship with Britain through some 700 objects, film clips and interviews, which are arranged according to the 13 films he made over a 50-year career.

The show coincides with the 20th anniversary of Kubrick's death.

He moved to Britain in the early 1960s, shooting classics Lolita (1962), 2001: The Space Odyssey (1968), Dr Strangelove (1964) and Full Metal Jacket (1987).

The exhibition's most famous items include Jack Nicholson's axe from The Shining (1980), the disturbing costumes from A Clockwork Orange (1971), the Born To Kill helmet worn by character Joker in Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Tom Cruise's Venetian cape and mask from Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Other exhibits detail his obsessive attention to detail, including a photograph of a snow-covered hotel in Oregon that would eventually be used for the outside shots of The Shining.

Labels stuck on the image include instructions for how the path should appear in the shot, adding "there is no other way to do it, repeat no other way".

The 2001: Space Odyssey section includes a model of the 12m "hamster wheel" used by astronauts in the film to simulate gravity.

The story of the shooting of Vietnam war epic Full Metal Jacket forms another part of the show in London's Design Museum from April 26 till Sept 15.

Items detail how Kubrick recreated Vietnamese city Hue in a deserted gas plant in Beckton, south-east London, through dynamiting and importing 200 palm trees from Spain and 100,000 tropical plastic plants from Hong Kong.

Others reveal the complicated, and often fractious relationship between Kubrick and his audience and critics, starting with 1962 classic Lolita, which details a middle-aged man's obsession with a 12-year-old girl.

In addition to the exhibition, a hunt through the archives of A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess has unearthed a never-before-seen unfinished "sequel" to the 1962 dystopian novel.

The manuscript was written by the British author, who died in 1993, in response to the moral panic surrounding Kubrick's ultra-violent 1971 adaptation of the novel, which was blamed for copycat crimes.

The Clockwork Condition describes 1970s society in terms of humans being reduced to cogs in a machine, "no longer much like a natural growth, not humanly organic".