Why is there gravity in the pod bay on Discovery One in 2001 and 2010 movies?

Question

In both movies, 2001 and 2010, we see people walking in the pod hangar bay aboard the Discovery One. The only part of the ship that has artificial gravity is the centrifuge wheel, so how can people walk in the pod hangar bay?

David Bowman and Frank Poole seem to walk normally through the hangar. They don't need to steady themselves as they walk in a supposedly zero gravity environment.

(Sorry about posting a link to the entire movie. I could not find a clip of just that scene. Fast forward to 1:02:30.)

Their walking motions are very unlike the slow and cautious walking motions of the woman in this scene from the movie, 2001. Kubrick made a point of showing us her "grip shoes" so we can how she walks on a surface while in zero gravity.

In the movie, 2010, Heywood Floyd also walks normally through the octagon hallway into the hangar bay. (Fast forward to 2:37.)

We know Kubrick was a stickler for getting the details right. Was this an oversight on his part?

Answer 1

If you watch the 2001 clip more carefully, you can see that most of the time, the actors are walking with a very stilted step (also mentioned in comments). Either the floor, or their shoes, are magnetized, which would be more practical than velcro for an environment that isn't carpeted. Nearly every scene in the pod bay in 2001 has them walking the same way, with a couple of exceptions (including a shift in stance in the scene you reference above) that are clearly errors that weren't worth going back and correcting.

For 2010, Peter Hyams was not trying to copy Kubrick's style, and chose not to dwell as much on the details of life in space. For example Alexei Leonov has a rotating section, but we see people walking normally, without stilted, prying feet off the floor walk of magnetized shoes, even in the parts of the ships that aren't under spin, like the bridge of Leonov or the pod bay of Discovery. However, two scenes clearly simulate realistic low-grav inside the ships -- Chandra in HAL's central processing unit, and Floyd using floating pens to demonstrate his idea for using Discovery to boost Leonov. These scenes demonstrate fairly clearly that Hyams knows there shouldn't be gravity in the non-spin sections, and that he simply chose not to have actors walk funny to belabour the point. There's a somewhat greater attention to such details during the exterior spacewalk scenes, however, including the use of the portable thruster and tether when Max and Curnow jump across to Discovery.

Answer 2

They have velcro on their shoes.

The stewardess came walking up the narrow corridor to the right of the closely spaced seats. There was a slight buoyancy about her steps, and her feet came away from the floor reluctantly as if entangled in glue. She was keeping to the bright yellow band of Velcro carpeting that ran the full length of the floor - and of the ceiling... This trick of walking in free fall was immensely reassuring to disoriented passengers.

Ironically, this was actually tried in real life and astronauts just ended up tripping over their own feet and found that weightlessness isn't the impediment it seemed back then.