Sigmund Lubin was an optician in Philadelphia who went into the movie business in the late 1890s. Many of Lubin's films were "dupes" of the movies Edison and Porter were making. His 1903 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin was announced as about to be released on September 12th, just a week after Edison began marketing his UTC. Lubin's film no longer survives. According to Charles Musser, who is the source for this information and the two images at left, Lubin's "one-reeler" was a bit shorter than Edison's (700 feet vs. 1100 feet), but "was remarkably similar in other respects."* As the two stills at left indicate, Lubin's film also used the sets and costumes from a "Tom Show" dramatization of the novel.

  In 1905 Lubin published a 13-page catalogue description of the film for potential exhibitors. It provides a fairly complete account of the various scenes, though since it too derives directly from Edison (in this case, the Edison Company's 1903 UTC catalogue), it is not entirely trustworthy as a guide to Lubin's re-presentation of the story. The catalogue's 24 still photos show how closely the Lubin production follows the Edison-Porter one, but unlike the text, these photos are not from Edison's catalogue.