I was glad to see this mostly work. I ended up with a costume for every frame in the gif animation. Unfortunately each frame seemed to have the result of all previous frames drawn on top of each other.
In order to see this bug I would imagine you would need an animated gif with transparency.
These flags are a good thing to try:
http://www.animationlibrary.com/sc/67/International_Flags/?page=1
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