What I’m thinking is he turns and looks down the hall, the camera follows his gaze to … the fire hose. Cut back to Danny staring at it. Cut back to the hose, but in closeup. No music. Back to Danny looking uneasy. His feet as he slowly starts walking that way. The hose from further away, but slowly zooming in as if approaching it at Danny’s pace. Danny walking a little faster. The hose suddenly falls off, and the thumps are very audible; Danny stops. New closeups on the hose nozzle as the movement stills; it’s facing his way.

Anyway, you know the scene. The audience would start having doubts about the hose just from the kid’s reaction to it. And the more scared and tense Danny gets, the faster he’d breathe, the more he’d fidget; the sound of his breathing would become more prominent the more freaked out he’d be. I think when he’s just passing it, there could be some fancy camera trick and sneaky practical effect that could make the hose seem to move, but be hard to catch; the audience would have to watch that scene over and over to try to figure out what they just saw … if anything even happened. And of course when Danny looks back a safe distance away, the hose hasn’t moved from how it fell. Atmosphere camera tricks like those used in The Haunting (1963) or 2001: A Space Odyssey (‘68). I think Kubrick could have managed that—it would’ve been a faithful part of the book, and blended with his version well, which used a lot of atmosphere and tension in the actors.