independent page giving errors

I have a feeling there is a quick and obvious answer to this, so if you know, please help.

I’m trying to create a page in my theme’s directory called: independent.php.

I want it to have a swf embedded but to share the header (Which contains the navigation to the rest of the site) and the footer.

Structurally I want it to look like this

<?php get_header()>
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content”>
INSERT SWF OBJECT CODE HERE
</div>
</div>
<?php get_footer()?>

I’m not having problems at all with insterting the flash. I have that working with conditional statements on individual pages.

What I’ve tried:

1. Duplicating page.php and wiping the content section and pasting my flash code.

When I go to site.com/wp-content/themes/themename/independent.php I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() on line 1

So what is happening is this isn’t being recognized as a legit wordpress function-accepting page.

2. Seeing this I tried pasting the header and footer code in place of the get functions.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bloginfo()

So again it just doesn’t like the page….

Any quick tips to create a page that only uses the navigation in the header and footer, and is just a complete content otherwise independent of wp calls?

Thanks in advance!!